Around 250 million years ago, one of Earth’s largest known volcanic events set off The Great Dying: the planet’s worst mass ...

For years, headlines have warned that Earth is entering its sixth mass extinction, but a new study suggests these fears may ...

Around 66 million years ago, Earth underwent a catastrophic event that wiped out nearly 75% of all species, including the dinosaurs. This wasn't the first mass extinction in our planet's history, but ...

The planet is on the cusp of triggering the sixth mass extinction event. Conserving a small percentage of land could make all ...

Extinction rates are not spiraling upward as many believe, according to a large-scale study analyzing 500 years of data.

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing over a period of roughly 30 million years, but that would come to a halt ...

Violent supernovas may have caused two of Earth’s largest mass extinctions that have never been completely explained, according to a theory put forward in new research.During the final stages of a ...

Fossil evidence from New Mexico shows dinosaurs were still strong, diverse, and thriving before their sudden extinction 66 ...